Ryan Murphy is like a far less talented Matthew Weiner: he does things just ’cause he can. Whereas Weiner’s “things” include blowing your whole budget on a single Beatles song, Murphy instead writes an entire season of American Horror Story about witches just so he has an excuse for Stevie Nicks to drop by.

I hate the man, but I don’t blame him. If I was running a show, I’d make every episode about Pavement, that way it wouldn’t seem weird when Stephen Malkmus appeared as a doctor, then a lawyer, then a neighbor, then a dog catcher…OK, fine, I’m going to call the show Pavement, and then it’ll get a spinoff, Boyz II Men III Senior Citizens.

I had no clue who Stevie Nicks was before this episode and I have no clue who Stevie Nicks is after this episode.
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They really should have brought in that Papa Legba character sooner in the season. He was so intimidating. I want to see a lot more of him.

I keep going into the season with high hopes but I am just not excited. I think it’s because we have no idea what the stakes are. No one can die, who cares who the supreme is? Nothing seems to have any effect on anything else.

But the voodoo devil was a bad ass and I still like tarisa farmiga even though her character has been “look kind of worried at all times”

I’m a huge AHS apologist. I’ve prided myself on knowing how to watch the show such that I abandon expectations and just let the batshittery wash over me. It worked with Murder House, it worked with Asylum. I keep trying to get it to work with Coven. I’m halfway convinced that the fault is mine for not being able to adapt. And I keep hoping the back-end is going to pull everything together such that I can retroactively appreciate what’s come before.

It’s just not sufficiently batshit crazy this season, that’s the problem. Like where are the Nazis, Aliens, Evil Santas, Rubber Men and young hot maids that are actually old ladies? I think it all boils down to not enough minotaur, really.

I never thought I would say this about AHS but this season is just too…sane. I thought with Zoe’s killer vag, Madison and her reckless nature and everyone else that it would be a riot but after a couple episodes it kind of calmed down. I liked the unstable mental feelings with the past two seasons. Of course I will still watch AHS probably till the end of time, I just wish for a absolutely crazy,mental, spastic thing to happen.